Questions

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• Title:	Sanctions imposed on job seekers leaving a job without sufficient reason
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	03/02/2015
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  Will the Minister inform members of the number of sanctions imposed on job seekers for leaving a job without sufficient reason or failing a task by quarter since the adoption of P …

• Title:	Enforcement of minimum wage requirements
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Andrew Lewis
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	16/06/2015
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  Could the Minister advise how the enforcement of the mandatory requirement for all employers to pay the minimum wage is currently policed and what, if any, cases of non-compliance …

• Title:	Allocation of named contacts to clients of the Social Security Department
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Louise Doublet
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	01/12/2015
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  Further to the response given during questions without notice on 3rd November 2015 by the Minister for Health and Social Services what consideration, if any, has the Minister …

• Title:	Information provided to benefits recipients by the Social Security Department
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Sam Mézec
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	03/11/2015
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  What efforts, if any, has the Social Security Department made to inform benefits recipients of the full implications of the cuts to their benefits beginning on 1st January next …

• Title:	Impact of the phasing out of lone parent component of Income Support on single parent households living in relative low income
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Sam Mézec
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	17/11/2015
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  Can I thank Members for allowing me to take this question last; I was held up by a personal matter that I had not foreseen occurring … In the light of the figures revealed in the …

• Title:	Amount lost by pensioners as a result of proposed cuts to income support
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Montfort Tadier
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	08/09/2015
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  Will the Minister inform Members how much pensioners will lose on average from their weekly payment as a result of proposed cuts to income support and other benefits, and can the …

• Title:	Expenditure supporting children in income support families
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Jackie Hilton
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	22/09/2015
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  Can the Minister provide the department’s expenditure on supporting children in income support families whose fathers do not contribute to their upbringing and state what the …

• Title:	Payment of Child Personal Care benefit
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Judy Martin
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	05/10/2015
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  3.3 Deputy J.A. Martin of the Minister for Social Security regarding the payment of Child … prior to the change in law brought by Deputy Martin, the acceptance of a level 2 or level 3 …

• Title:	Sanctions imposed for failure to actively seek work
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	24/02/2015
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  What target, if any, does the Social Security Department have for the time taken to deal with appeals against sanctions imposed for failure to actively seek work …

• Title:	Zero-hours contracts
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	12/05/2015
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  Can the Minister state why the report Zero-Hours Contracts: response to P.100/2013 as amended (R.52/2015) has not dealt with paragraph (c) of the proposition and fails to address …

• Title:	Allocation of Income Support components
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Judy Martin
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	20/01/2015
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  it not the case in the examples quoted by Deputy Martin that the rule is that the rental component …

• Title:	Legally binding repayment plan for couple sentenced for defrauding Department
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Jackie Hilton
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	24/02/2015
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  Can the Minister confirm whether a legally binding repayment plan has been put in place following the case heard in the Royal Court on 6th February 2015 where a couple were …